Name: Emon Ghaneian
Location of Residence: Dedonco Beach
Occupation: Student
Age: 16
Deck you played today and why: Chaos Control, because it works!
Matchups you’re hoping to face: Comic Odyssey people like Wilson and Eric Wu.
Matchups you’re hoping to avoid: No one!
What do you feel are the top three decks in the current environment: Chaos and Earth.
Cards you will miss the least due to the new Advanced list: Mirage of Nightmare and Painful Choice

Name: Mike Rosenberg
Location of Residence: Vista, in San Diego County
Occupation: Student/Writer
Age: 19
Deck you played today, and why: I played a Tsukuyomi control deck I’ll be calling “Masks of Tsuku”. I didn’t want to run a cookie-cutter deck, and I’m obsessed with Tsukuyomi, so I went with her as my central card for a deck.
Matchups you’re hoping to face tomorrow: Cookie-cutter chaos. They don’t know how to handle my deck yet.
Matchups you’re hoping to not face tomorrow: Evan Vargas and his deck. I’d rather play him in the finals.
What do you feel are the top three decks in the current environment? Chaos/Zombie, Tsuku Control, and maybe Strike Ninja?
Cards you will miss the least due to the new Advanced list? Fiber Jar, and that annoyingly broken fusion lover known as Magical Scientist.

Name: Evan Vargas
Location of Residence: College Station, TX
Occupation: Texas A&M University student
Age: 19
Deck you played today, and why: Soul Control, because it’s my own original deck. It has savage card advantage and combos.
Matchups you’re hoping to face tomorrow: Cookie Cutter Warrior Chaos, Zombies.
Matchups you’re hoping to not face tomorrow: Deck Out
What do you feel are the top three decks in the current environment? Soul Control, Chaos Warrior Control, and Zombies
Cards you will miss the least due to the new Advanced list? Magical Scientist

Name: Wilson Luc
Location of Residence: Los Angeles
Occupation: Student
Age: 16
Deck you played today, and why: I played a Zombie deck today because Jaelove always says he’s such a zombie expert. So I decided to do what he could never do and make Top 8 with a Zombie deck at a SJC.
Matchups you’re hoping to face tomorrow: I’m hoping to face Evan Vargas, simply because he talks a lot of trash and I don’t believe he can back it up.
Matchups you’re hoping to not face tomorrow: I’m obviously not hoping to face Eric Wu, since we’re on the same team.
What do you feel are the top three decks in the current environment? The top three decks are Chaos Warriors, Zombie, and Lockdown.
Card you will miss the least due to the new Advanced list? The card I will miss the least is Magical Scientist, since I dislike first-turn kills.

Name: Keanson Ye
Location of Residence: Richmond, CA
Occupation: Student
Age: 17
Deck you played today, and why: Zombie Phoenix, because the deck has mass recursion and is anti-Chaos.
Matchups you’re hoping to face tomorrow: Creative decks.
Matchups you’re hoping to not face tomorrow: Zombie
What do you feel are the top three decks in the current environment? Zombie Phoenix, Chaos, Warrior
Card you will miss the least due to the new Advanced list? Fiber Jar.

Name: Elton Cho
Residence: Los Angeles, CA
Occupation: Student
Age: 13
Deck you played today, and why: I played Beast/Tech, since it would counter a lot of other decks and keep field advantage.
Matchups you’re hoping to face tomorrow: I don’t know most of the players in the Top 8, so I don’t know who I am hoping to face.
Matchups you’re hoping not to face tomorrow: I hope I don’t play the same person I lost to on Saturday.
What do you feel are the top three decks in the current environment: I think the top three decks are Beastdown/tech, Strike Ninja decks, and well-constructed Insect decks.
Cards you will miss the least due to the new Advanced list: I will miss Fiber Jar the least, since I always lost when I had control of the game and my opponent top-decked their Fiber Jar.

Name: Eric Wu
Residence: Los Angeles, CA
Occupation: Student
Age: 15
Deck you played today and why: I played a zombie deck with Chaos, because of the speed of the deck and that the D. D. Warrior Ladies are limited to one copy.
Matchups you’re hoping to face tomorrow: Doesn’t matter.
Matchups you’re hoping not to face tomorrow: My teammates.
What do you feel are the top three decks in the current environment: Chaos/Zombie, Beast decks, and Warrior decks.
Card you will miss the least due to the new Advanced list? Magical Scientist.